, 1887-11-15
BURIAL OF THE REDS.
The Last of the Five Dead
Anarchists.
A Large But Orderly Crowd
Attend the Funeral
The Collins Half Covered With
Flaming Red.

CHICAGO, Nov. l3-The entire squad
of the central detail of police was on
duty this morning at 9 o'clock, About
twenty men were held in reserve all night
and spent the day in the station instead
of being assigned to positions on the line
of march.
Fitting mile after mile in the gloom,
down to the cold, fat earth, five unseen,
soulless figures. fleeing in death as from
the one great Being from whom alone
there can be no law, found a hiding place
to night in the darkness at a most desc
late spot on the prairie's wide expanse.
The five ghostly figures were the symbols
of an attempted destruction of law. They
were the
FIVE DEAD ANARCHISTS
Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel and
LOUIS Lingg. Probably a half a million
people in the city of their terrible crime
saw the last public preparations for their
final fight to the tomb. Scarcely more
than half the number expected-7,000
men and $50 ~women-aided in the city by
forming in procession behind them. Ten
thousand people were present in the bar
est, emptiest graveyard adjacent to Chic
ago. When the corpses at last were
hidden, muttered curses and bitter muir
murs and a cry OF Throttle the lawl'
accompanied the parting words spoken
over the five lifeless bodies.
1t was almost To a second the exact
time that forty-eight hours previous the
scaffold drop fell with August Spies and
his comrades, that to day the blacklist Of
hearses drew up at the door of his rela-
tiyes. More peculiar still was the fact
that the hearse vas just ready to start at
the precise moment corresponding to the
announcement that Spies had ceased to
breathe. This was the beginning of the
~obsequies. The scene was at the extreme
northwestern corner of the city, and the
route taken resembled nothing 50 much
as a
MONSTER BLACK SNAKE,
stretching right to the center OF Chicago
and protruding out and beyond Its south
western angle. Serted lines of blacSness
were formed of human beings wedged to-
gether into almost a single continuous
whole.
OFF from Milwaukee avenue Spies lived
in a little oasis of well-to-do Americans
and Germans, while the others who were
entombed to day had places of abode
scattered along at intervals of five or six
blocks, close to the same t~horoughtare,
but in the midst of the most ignorant and
uncouth classes of Chicago's foreign born
population. About 1000 persons, most
of them neighbors of Spies, were congre-
gated on the streets and sidewalks of the
block in which Spies lived, when the time
for departure arrived. As at the other
houses where the anarchists bodies lay, a
constant stream of mourners or curious
sightseers had been since almost daylight
pouring through the building and viewing
the livid emains or gazing at the weeping
relatives.
When the forty eight hours a%nniver,
sary of the scatfold drop had come, and
the sombre hearse was standing patiently
at the curb, the tall. stately form of Capt
Black, the anarchists chief counsel, was
seen stepping out through the throng at
Spies threshold.
SUPPORTED ON HIS ARM,
with her head pillowed on his shoulder,
was Il clinging girlish figure clad in Grape
from head to foot, the picture of utter
woe. The face was completely yelled
from sight. but instantly a whisper was
heard on every side, There she is, p"
There's Nina Van Iandt," That's
Spies wife"
1t was not until the coffin had been
placed in the hearse and the immediate
mourners had entered their carriages and
500 blue badged Turner'S had formed in
rank ahead that the crowd discovered its
mistake.
Calmly seated in the first carriage, with
out a sign of mourning in her apparel or a
single trace of grief in her pale, set coun-
tenance, the face was Enthusiastically that
of Spies youthful proxy bride, but it had
suddenly acquired dignity and mature
ness that gave it an unlocked for but far
from repellant aspect to one of her years.
Aside from this expression the shapely
features were of a peculiar y~ellOwlsh
pallor. 1t may have been mere fancy OF
the observers, but those who saw the
face of Spies as he trod to his place on
the galluws say the pallOr on his our
tenance then was exactly as that to-day on
the face of
NINA VAN ZANDT.
She appeared in a well worn fur trimmed
wrap of dark wine colored, or purple,
velvet, a very simply made dress Of black
silk and a small, neat bonnet to match the
wrap.
While the crowds were recovering from
surprise at Miss Van Zandt's demeanol
and dress, a black clad girl who had ac
companied Capt. Black into the same car
riage with Spies pseudo wife, threw back
her veil and disclosed the tear stained
features of the dead mans sister, Gret
chen. Alongside Nina, and apparently
deriving some consolation from words o
cheer spoken now and then, sat the
mother of Spies, who seemed to have
rather better control of her or ef than the
daughter.
The band soon struck up a mournfu
dirge and the procession started slowly
down Milwaukee avenue, which was lineC
with such a mass of people as was neve
seen on it before. Moving slowly on, thu
procession was Joined at the homes o
Fischer, Parsons, Engel and Lingg by
their remains and portions of the parade
which originated at each house. The
scenes at each of the houses were some
what similar to those of Spies.
The most striking view of the process
sion was obtained at the corner OF LAX
and Desplaine>, for it brought so vividly
to mind the scene of May 4-'SG-wher
the bomb was thrown. 1t was just La
| o'clock when the head of the line reached